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Spain names provisional roster for June 11 match at Yankee Stadium

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Spanish national team coach Vicente del Bosque has announced a preliminary roster for his team's match on Tuesday, June 11 vs. Ireland at Yankee Stadium. Of the 26 players provisionally named to the Spanish squad listed below, 23 will make the trip to Yankee Stadium for the friendly, which will serve as preparation for Spain's opening match in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil just five days later.

The provisional roster includes 19 players that were part of Spain's 2010 FIFA World Cup-winning team in South Africa and 20 who won the 2012 UEFA European Championship in Poland and the Ukraine. The squad also features 14 players from FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Spain is ranked No. 1 in the world by FIFA, having won the most recent FIFA World Cup in 2010 and each of the last two UEFA European Championships in 2008 and 2012. They are undefeated in their last 20 overall matches dating back to November 15, 2011, notching 16 wins and four draws over the span.

Kickoff time for the match is 8:00 p.m. Tickets are currently on sale at www.yankees.com/soccer and www.ticketmaster.com.

For updates and further details, including suite opportunities, please visit www.yankees.com/soccer or follow @yankeesevents on Twitter.

The contest will mark the fourth soccer match at the current Yankee Stadium and the second this year. On May 25, Manchester City defeated Chelsea, 5-3, as Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Chelsea's Ramires each registered a pair of goals before a crowd of 39,462. Last July 22, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain played to a 1-1 draw in front of 38,202 fans, and last August 8, a sellout crowd of 49,474 watched Cristiano Ronaldo score two goals to help Real Madrid defeat A.C. Milan, 5-1.

The current Yankee Stadium carries on the great soccer tradition of the original Yankee Stadium, which hosted some of the most famous teams in world soccer, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, Tottenham Hotspur, Barcelona, A.C. Milan, Juventus, Napoli, Celtic, Benfica and Sparta Prague, along with the national teams of England, Israel, Italy and the United States. Pele, who many consider the greatest player of all time, called Yankee Stadium home in 1976, when he played for the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League.